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Emergency Research Ethics: Volume IV
The essays selected for this volume focus on issues that arise when attempting to design, review and undertake research involving human participants who are experiencing a private or public emergency. The volume is unique in that it is the first collection to exclusively deal with all of the central ethical aspects of conducting human subject research in the context of emergency.
| Author(s) | Edited by A.M. Viens. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 522 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 17 Jan 2013 |
| Availability | Available |
The essays selected for this volume focus on issues that arise when attempting to design, review and undertake research involving human participants who are experiencing a private or public emergency. The volume is unique in that it is the first collection to exclusively deal with all of the central ethical aspects of conducting human subject research in the context of emergency.
Contents: Introduction; Part I Consent: Informed consent in emergency research: a contradiction in terms, Malcolm G. Booth; Decision-making capacity and disaster research, Donald L. Rosenstein; To be or not to be: waiving informed consent in emergency res
A.M. Viens is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany and an external member of the UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction, United Kingdom.
